In discussions of the decadeslong war on the English language, invocations of
George Orwell’
s 1984 are plentiful. This is a mistake. The go-to invocation should be his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language. It’s a more germane, and decidedly less cliche, point of reference insofar as the topic of acceptable public discourse is concerned.
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